Top 102 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.